hematic session of Free Communications: HISTORIOGRAPHY 4 TH – 9 TH CENTURIES Chairs: Roger Scott, Slawomir Bralewski Slawomir Bralewski, Loi ecclésiastique selon Socrate de Constantinople Maria Kouroumali, Historical Causation and Interpretation: he Role of Supernatural Agency in Procopius of Caesarea Teresa Wolińska, he Use of the Title of Basileus in Procopius’ Writings and Basileia of Arethas Raf Praet, Eighteen of Nineteen Books? he Chronicle of John Malalas as a Mechanism of Cyclical and Apocalyptic Time Lorenzo Focanti, Exi, Februarie: Brunichius in Malalas’ Chronicle Elisabeta Negrău, A Quotation from heophylact Simocatta by heophanes Confessor in an 8th-Century Tract? Torna, Torna, Frater Revisited Roger Scott, George the Monk and Kedrenos on Constantine the Great and the Vita Silvestri